When can you go back to work if you had the coronavirus?
The CDC has extensive criteria that you must encounter to interrupt home isolation and return to work.
Companies reopening As states raise locking orders, but coronavirus still spreads. However, disease control and prevention centers (CDC) stated that employers have the capacity of "Prevent and slow down the propagation of COVID-19 in the workplace, "If they use best practices and implement preventive guidelines, including the determination of the moment it is safe for an employee to return to work after having the coronavirus.
According to the CDC, employers should not let employees return to work "Until the criteria for interrupting the insulation of the house are satisfied. "
Currently, the CDC has different criteria for those with symptoms and those who havePositive tested but remains asymptomatic. However, the two cases call for at least 14 days of self-quarantine after exposure and at least 10 days after the first positive coronavirus test of a patient or initial appearance of symptoms.
"This recommendation will prevent most things, but can not prevent all secondary propagation cases", CDC notes. "Employers and local public health authorities may choose to apply stricter criteria for some people in which a higher threshold to prevent transmission is justified."
For those who symptoms, at least 72 hours must be passed since the recovery, that the CDC defines like "Fever resolution Without the use of drugs reducing fever and improving respiratory symptoms ", asCough and shortness of breath. And at least 10 days must have passed since the first time the patient has started showing symptoms. In addition, the person must provide negative results of a COVID-19 test authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Forthose who have tested positive But did not show symptoms, at least 10 days must have passed since their first positive Covid-19 test. At this point, they can then be tested again for Covid-19 and start the return to work process if the results are negative. However, if the personSymptoms of coronavirus developed At any time after their first positive result, they must respect the criteria based on symptoms.
The CDC says that employers should also protect employees potentially exposed to a person who has coronaviruses because they could be asymptomatic and can also develop symptoms in a few days. These employees should be responsible for staying at home for 14 days, working at a distance if possible and self-monitoring for all the symptoms that may occur. And for more ways to stay safely at your work after reopening, checkDo not go back to work if your office does not have this thing.
